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Honeybee colonies organise work without any leader assigning tasks, but scientists have now discovered that specific brain circuits help control this process. (Representational photo) Honeybee colonies work in an organised way even though no bee tells the others what to do. Young bees look after the queen and baby bees, older ones build and guard…

Indian AI engineer shares visa denial experience for company offsite in the US. Getting a US visa for travel and business purposes has become extremely tricky as visa officers reject applications if they even have the slightest doubt that the applicant may not come back to their home country country; or start looking for a…

Leaky dams, also known as logjams, allow water to flow through slowly instead of blocking it. (Representational AI image) East Anglia, a rural region in eastern England, is facing a hosepipe ban after becoming the driest part of the UK. But in one village in Norfolk, people are also preparing for the opposite problem of…

Brandon Ortiz-Vite is serving 39–102 years for killing girlfriend Ruby Garcia. An illegal immigrant serving a decades-long prison sentence for murdering his girlfriend has filed a federal lawsuit against US President Donald Trump, seeking $75 million in damages, a public apology, and even US citizenship, claiming the president unfairly turned him into a political symbol…

Advait Deshmukh apologized to his victims during the sentencing. An Indian-origin doctor in Ohio’s Toledo has been sentenced to six months in jail after he admitted that he secretly recorded women in employee restrooms at Toledo Hospital. Advait Deshmukh was sentenced in June after he pleaded guilty to one count of attempted tampering with evidence…

Spain players, from left, cheer alongside President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino at the conclusion of the World Cup championship final soccer match between Spain and Argentina in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Spain won the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Sunday, beating Argentina 1-0 after extra time…

For more than a century, a vast empty basin in Egypt’s Western Desert was considered the site of one of the world’s most unusual engineering proposals. The Qattara Depression, a sunken stretch of land below sea level, was imagined as a place where seawater from the Mediterranean could be used to generate electricity. Engineers, geographers…

Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami over rape and sex trafficking charges Newly unsealed court documents have revealed detailed allegations against social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, including rape, choking and sex trafficking, as the brothers remain in US custody while fighting extradition to the United Kingdom.The federal filings, released Monday night, detail…

US Army veteran sets fire outside NYC federal building . (Photo: X) A US Army veteran was taken into custody on Monday after allegedly setting a fire, launching fireworks and firing an airsoft rifle outside New York City’s 26 Federal Plaza, a federal building that houses the FBI, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an…

File photo: Ozgur Ozel in a rally in Izmir, Turkey (Picture credit: AP) Turkey’s opposition leader Ozgur Ozel announced on Tuesday that he and his allies will resign from the country’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and form a new political party, marking a major split in the opposition as it faces an ongoing…